Êxodo 23

1 "You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

2 "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice. 3 You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.

4 "If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. 5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

6 "You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.

7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

8 "You shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the words of the righteous.

9 "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase, 11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

12 "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

14 "You shall observe a feast to me three times a year. 15 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib (for in it you came out of Egypt), and no one shall appear before me empty. 16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field. 17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh.

18 "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

19 You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground into the house of Yahweh your God.

"You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

20 "Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don’t provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him. 22 But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries. 23 For my angel shall go before you, and bring you in to the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I will cut them off. 24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars. 25 You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you. 26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will fulfill the number of your days. 27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you. 28 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you. 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you. 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land. 31 I will set your border from the Red Sea even to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River; for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."

Ngā Ture he aha, he aha

1 "Kei puaki i a koe te kōrero tito noa. Kei totoro tahi tōu ringa me te tangata kino, kei meinga hei kaiwhakaatu teka.

2 "Kei whai tahi me te tokomaha ki te kino. Kaua anō hoki e hamumu i te totohenga, hei mea kia riro ai i tā te tokomaha, hei whakapeau kē i te tika; 3 kaua anō e whakanuia te rawakore, ina tohe ia.

4 "Ki te tūtaki koe ki te kau a tōu hoariri, ki tana kāihe rānei, e atiti noa ana, me āta whakahoki e koe ki a ia. 5 Ki te kite koe i te kāihe a tōu hoariri e takoto ana i raro i tāna pīkaunga, ā, ka ngākaukore koe ki te whakaara, me āta whakaara tahi e kōrua.

6 "Kei whakapeaua kētia e koe te whakawā mō tōu tangata rawakore, ina tohe ia. 7 Kia matara koe i te teka; kaua anō e whakamatea te tangata harakore rāua ko te tangata tika; e kore hoki ahau e whakatika i tā te tangata hara.

8 "Kaua anō e tango i te utu whakapati; he mea whakamatapō hoki te utu whakapati i te kānohi kite, he mea whakaparori kē hoki i ngā kupu a te hunga tika.

9 "Kaua anō e tūkinotia te manene; e mōhio ana hoki koutou ki te ngākau o te manene; he manene hoki koutou i mua, i te whenua o Īhipa."

Te Tau Tuawhitu me te Rā Tuawhitu

10 "Kia ono hoki ngā tau e rui ai koe i tōu oneone, e kohikohi ai hoki i ōna hua; 11 i te whitu ia me waiho kia takoto kau ana, kia pariri, ā, ka kai ngā tāngata rawakore o tōu iwi; ā, mā ngā kīrehe o te pārae ā rātou toenga e kai. Kia pēnā anō koe ki tāu māra wāina, ki tāu māra ōriwa.

12 "E ono ngā rā e mahi ai koe i āu mahi, ā, i te whitu ka okioki; kia okioki ai tāu kau, me tāu kāihe, kia whai tānga manawa ai hoki te tama a tāu pononga wahine me te manene.

13 "Kia tūpato anō ki ngā mea katoa kua kōrerotia nei e ahau ki a koutou. Kaua hoki e whakahuatia te ingoa o ngā atua kē, kei rangona hoki ki tōu māngai."

Ngā Hākari Nui e Toru

14 "E toru ngā wā o te tau e tuku hākari ai koe ki ahau.

15 "Kia mau ki te Hākari o te Taro Rēwenakore; e whitu ngā rā e kai ai koe i te taro rēwenakore, e pērā ai me tāku i whakahau ai ki a koe, i te wā anō i whakaritea o te marama, o Apipi; nō reira hoki koe i haere mai ai i Īhipa.

"Kaua anō hoki tētahi e puta kau mai ki tōku aroaro.

16 "Ki te Hākari o te Kotinga, o te mātāmua o āu mahi, i ruia e koe ki te māra.

"Ki te Hākari o te Kohikohinga i te mutunga o te tau, ina oti te kohikohi mai e koe āu mahi i te māra.

17 "E toru ngā wā o te tau e kitea ai ōu tāne katoa ki te aroaro o te Ariki, o Ihowā.

18 "Kaua e whakaherea tahitia me te taro rēwena te toto o tāku patunga tapu; kei toe anō hoki ki te ata te ngako o tāku hākari.

19 "Me kawe e koe ki te whare o Ihowā, o tōu Atua ngā mea mataati o ngā mātāmua o tōu oneone.

"Kaua e kōhuatia te kūao koati ki te waiū o tōna whaea."

Te Anahera a Ihowā hei Tiaki i te Ara

20 "Nanā, ka tonoa nei e ahau he anahera ki mua i a koe, hei tiaki i a koe i te ara, hei kawe hoki i a koe ki te wāhi i whakaritea e ahau. 21 Kia tūpato ki a ia, whakarongo hoki ki tōna reo, kaua e whakapātaritari ki a ia; nō te mea e kore ia e whakarere noa iho i tō koutou hara; kei a ia nei hoki tōku ingoa. 22 Ki te āta whakarongo i a koe ki tōna reo, ki te mea hoki i ngā mea katoa e kōrero ai ahau; nā, ko ahau hei hoariri mō ōu hoariri, hei hoa whawhai hoki ki ōu hoa whawhai. 23 Ka haere hoki tāku anahera ki mua i a koe, hei kawe i a koe ki ngā Amori, ki ngā Hiti, ki ngā Perihi, ki ngā Kanaani, ki ngā Hiwi, ki ngā Iepuhi; ka hunā rātou e ahau. 24 Kei koropiko koe ki ō rātou atua, kei mahi hoki ki a rātou, kei rite hoki āu mahi ki ā rātou mahi. Engari, me turaki rawa e koe, me wāwāhi rawa anō hoki ā rātou whakapakoko. 25 Ā, me mahi koutou ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, ā, ka manaakitia e ia tāu taro, me tōu wai; ka whakakorea atu anō hoki e ahau te mate i roto i a koe. 26 E kore tētahi mea e whānau whakatahe, e pākoko rānei, i tōu whenua; ka āta tutuki anō i ahau te maha o ōu rā.

27 "Ka tukua atu e ahau tāku wehi ki mua i a koe, ā, ka whakamatea ngā iwi katoa e haere atu nei koe ki a rātou, ka meinga anō hoki e ahau kia tahuri ngā tuarā o ōu hoariri katoa ki a koe. 28 Ka ungā anō e ahau te horonete ki mua i a koe, māna e pei ngā Hiwi, ngā Kanaani, me ngā Hiti i tōu aroaro. 29 E kore rātou e peia e ahau i tōu aroaro i te tau kotahi; kei ururuatia te whenua, ā, ka nui rawa i a koe te kīrehe o te pārae. 30 Ka peia rikirikitia atu rātou e ahau i tōu aroaro, kia hua rā anō koe, kia riro rā anō hoki te whenua i a koe.

31 "Ā, ka whakatakotoria e ahau tōu rohe ki te Moana Whero ā tae noa ki te Moana o ngā Pirihitini, ki te koraha hoki ā tae noa ki te awa. Ka tukua atu nei hoki e ahau ki ō koutou ringa ngā tāngata o te whenua, ā, ka peia rātou e koe i tōu aroaro. 32 Kaua e whakarite kawenata ki a rātou, ki ō rātou atua rānei. 33 Kaua rātou e noho ki tōu whenua, kei mea rātou i a koe kia hara ki ahau; tā te mea, ki te mahi koe ki ō rātou atua, ka ai tēnā hei rore mōu."